revisionism
Although advertised as revisionist, the book is not significantly re-interpretive.
The phenomenon is cheered by Reaganites as an overdue tribute, though some academics see it as revisionist history taking its course.
This book is not revisionist. Instead, it's a fascinating recycling.
Like-minded academics and journalists have pushed forward a revisionist view of Japan's wartime history.

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revisionist
To speculate, the empirical findings of this article may be thought to provide a 'revisionist' view of the developmental state.
Of course, a revisionist perspective on ideological orientations not only implies short-term effects during a single campaign.
In other words, revisionists have not fully recognized the constraints under which all historians must work.
The graduate system was discontinued, having been denounced as a system for cultivating revisionist seedlings.
Any revisionist biographer should engage with these aspects especially if he or she deems them to be mistaken.
As the editors emphasise in their introduction, the essays it contains present a revisionist account in more ways than one.
But the interpretation of this process is altered by the revisionist view of pre1870 citizenship law set out here.
That insistence stems from the more fundamental aim of the revisionists to resist the anachronising teleology that often accompanies ' grand theory ' explanations of the past.
To begin with we should admit that the revisionist case is clearly a strong one.
However, this is not to say that we can simply embark on a revisionist historiography based on dissolving them.
For them the 'revisionist' programmes were not only alien and distant, but, in many cases, repellent.
It is this which some revisionist historians have relied upon to allege a general, long-lived atmosphere of terror.
This emphasis becomes apparent only when melodramatic convention is read comparatively against the play's revisionist treatment of a well-known historical subject.
Overall the picture is one of advance in a revisionist spirit.
This resentment did not necessarily entail a revisionist stand.
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